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Happy Day of Celebrating Love! Persian Poet Hafiz (1320-1389) says in his poem The Happy Virus: I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me. My Love to...
Read MoreBeginnings, middles and ends tend to be important to me. If my year has been more bad than good, I am grateful it is over. “Phew, thank God, I can start again.” If more joy than pain, I celebrate this. “Yippee, winner.” (is that word Trademarked now?) Always a triumph in the flipping of the calendar from one year to the next. For closure, I create a comprehensive list of anything remaining to forgive or leave behind, then I do it. Followed by a list of gratitudes, which I hang out in a bit. Then, the intention or theme I’ve set for the year, I imagine in my journal. This year, while contemplating my closure within my blog, I decided upon a “year in pictures” selecting photos which in some way open my heart a bit. Here goes … 2011 begins. Happy New Year is the picture I have on my Face Book profile for the month of January. Daughter wins Bingo … raise your...
Read MoreFriends, Can’t think of what to get your beloved this year for the holiday season? Grab your spiced cider, decide you will have an answer by reading this post and invest three minutes in finding your answer. Last week I celebrated a MAJOR birthday. Major in terms of number of years I’ve walked above the earth. At an intimate home gathering twelve friends created this masterpiece for me, before my eyes, at my party. Five others had contributed to the blank canvas prior to this evening. If you look closely you can see some phrases such as: Loud love Skipping through life Joy Love Speak light Peace Blessings Responding to the ideas I imagine Every day is a nice day Included in the design are hand prints, doves, a woman’s head, lips, an eyeball, numerous hearts and a cloth multi-colored peace sign in the center. I LOVE this painting. It represents all that is good in my life. The colors wake me up. When I see...
Read MoreFriends, My heart is so full of joy right now. There are moments when I am proud to be an American. Where wearing the “country” label feels good upon my skin. Today, I experienced one of these moments. My morning started as it often does with a walk to my local Starbucks. Walking allows me to get grounded to the earth, move my body some and receiving a natural source of Vitamin D. This morning as I stood in line to purchase my venti green tea iced, no sweetener. I was met with a smile from my barista behind the register and a patriotic-looking display to the right front of it. The display read “This country needs jobs” with an invitation for the consumer, me, to get involved with a solution. For a $5 donation, six other investment groups (foundations, banks, corporations, faith-based organizations, government, socially responsible investors) match my gift to parlay it into a $35 donation. This donation is then loaned to create community businesses in America...
Read More“Nothing is sexier than watching active transformation” came sliding out of my mouth suspended 90 feet above the ground. I went zip lining with my friend Brandy last week. She was terrified. Okay, terrified is a generous understatement. She was silent in the car ride to the zip location. She robotically geared up with the assistance of our guide. Trembling she wanted to run. A few times she said ” no I can’t” and those around her would remind her she could. Her skin was a cross between ghost and paste and her energy was somewhere outside of her body. She had a good reason to be frightened. Several months prior she had been in a plane circling over LAX when the plane caught on fire, smoke filling the cabin. She associated the experience of height with potential death and she wanted to move beyond and through this fear. It was, however, active within her and running her body. We were given safety instructions and then we ascended via...
Read MoreAlooooooooha. I am in Kauai celebrating a significant milestone birthday. My desire for myself? To see, know, recognize, give, and receive love in all of its magnificent forms. It has become a practice for me. I can sit in any situation and say “I spy with my own little eye, love ….” The Course in Miracles says everything is love or a cry for love. If this is indeed true, then I ought to see/experience if I give it attention. Kauai is an Hawaiian island where I have visited: as a child to play with my family, as a young adult to heal from heartbreak, with my daughter to bond and learn, to write my first book captive on a balcony overlooking the roaring Pacific, to explore deepening relationships with others, and now to celebrate who I’ve been and who I’m becoming in the next phase of unfolding. Yesterday I stood atop Waimea Canyon, the mini-Grand Canyon, reading this passage from mystic-teacher Joel Goldsmith: “Flow, God; flow! Flow into...
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